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Chapter 1-4 review
Question | Answer |
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what is law ? | a set of regulations governing the relationships among people and between people and there government, nothing more than a language. |
what is a crime ? | a public wrong |
public wrong ? | prosecuted by the state in its own name, punished by fine, imprisonment, or death |
civil wrong ? | action instituted by the wronged individual, normally ordered to pay damages to the injured party. |
criminal law is ? | an offspring of personal vendetta |
hammurabi ? | eye for an eye |
common law ? | was developed by the common people and was imposed on the rulers of the country |
civil law ? | was developed by the rulers and imposed on the people |
how many states have adopted substantive criminal law codes and at least implicitly have abolished common law offenses ? | 28 |
morality ? | morally wrong |
felony ? | a crime for which one would forfeit all property in addiction to punishment. jail time more than a year |
misdemeanor ? | minor nature , the penalty for which is less than a year. |
public wrong ? | affects people of the entire state |
mala prohibita ? | bad only because it is prohibited |
constitution ? | grant of power |
concurrent jurisdiction ? | two states have jurisdiction |
jurisdiction ? | authority of a court to hear and decide case |
law ? | guideline for all members of society |
original jurisdiction ? | authority of a court to try a case that has never been tried before |
personal jurisdiction ? | authority of a court to hear and decide a case by having the person charged present or capable of bring present |
territorial jurisdiction ? | authority of a court to hear and decide a saw within geographical area |
venue ? | geographical place where the crime was committed and where the trial will normally be held. |
status as an act ? | a condition or state of being |
methods used to commit the act | perp acts by his own hand, inanimate agency, innocent human agency, non human agency |